Specifications

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physical machine. For more details on hardware profiles, see Setting Up Hardware
Profiles in Virtual Machines on page 206.
1. Boot Windows 98 natively (not in a virtual machine).
2. Right-click the My Computer icon on the desktop, then select Properties.
3. Click the Hardware Profiles tab.
4. Highlight the Original Configuration profile, then click Copy.
5. Name the profile Virtual Machine, then click OK.
You may also want to rename the Original Configuration profile to Physical
Machine.
6. Click OK to close the System Properties dialog box.
7. Shut down Windows 98 and reboot the system.
8. Boot into your host operating system (Linux, Windows 2000 or Windows Server
2003).
9. Select Virtual Machine from the list of profiles when prompted.
10. Windows 98 auto-detects the virtual machine’s devices and installs the device
drivers.
11. When Windows detects the video card driver, select Search for the best driver.
12. When prompted to reboot, click No. The AMD PCNET driver is installed, followed
by the IDE controller drivers.
13. When prompted to reboot, click Yes.
14. Select the Virtual Machine hardware profile.
15. After Windows 98 has completed booting, start the Add New Hardware Wizard
from the Control Panel.
16. Click Next, then Next again.
17. Select No, the device isn't in the list.
18. Click Yes, then click Next.
19. After all devices have been detected, click the Details button to list the detected
non-Plug and Play devices.
20. Click Finish, then reboot the virtual machine when prompted.
21. Select the VMware GSX Server configuration profile. Notice that an unknown
monitor is detected and installed.
22. Install VMware Tools as outlined in Installing VMware Tools on page 62.